The Park Slope Uniform
I thought that was too good to leave on the end of a thread!
Hmm...
Park Slope Uniform:
For men- shortish hair, jeans, baseball hats, glasses, sneakers, and a distinct air of sexual frustration. No Mojo.
For women: no makeup, frizzy hair, loose pants, new pedicure, waxed eyebrows, $300. cell phone permanently attached, overpriced hoodies, old granny panties, recognized by her self entitled p.c. aroma..
I guess it's more about what people DON'T wear. Or have...style.
Hmm...
Park Slope Uniform:
For men- shortish hair, jeans, baseball hats, glasses, sneakers, and a distinct air of sexual frustration. No Mojo.
For women: no makeup, frizzy hair, loose pants, new pedicure, waxed eyebrows, $300. cell phone permanently attached, overpriced hoodies, old granny panties, recognized by her self entitled p.c. aroma..
I guess it's more about what people DON'T wear. Or have...style.
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Subject: Re: "The Park Slope Uniform"
The Chipster wrote: I thought that was too good to leave on the end of a thread!
wrong.
Hmm...
Park Slope Uniform:
For men- shortish hair, jeans, baseball hats, glasses, sneakers, and a distinct air of sexual frustration. No Mojo.
For women: no makeup, frizzy hair, loose pants, new pedicure, waxed eyebrows, $300. cell phone permanently attached, overpriced hoodies, old granny panties, recognized by her self entitled p.c. aroma..
I guess it's more about what people DON'T wear. Or have...style.
me: little makeup but always lipstick, long curly hair, fitted lucky-brand jeans, pedicure i've done myself, eyebrows i've tweezed myself, $12 plus dimes and pennies, cell phone lost in giant very plain leather bag, no hoodie (please, i wear cashmere sweaters. so if it's a hoodie, it's cashmere). new boyshorts, grapefruit perfume, always stepping out of the way for strollers, kids, bikes, dogs, homeless people, elderly people, et alia. -
Care to post a picture of your uniform, Chippy?
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Gosh, that sounds awful. Hmm, I must be a black sheep.. I wear make up, have straight non frizzy hair, like the fitted jeans. P.S. granny panties should be used as parachutes only. and no hoodies. I'm not a 5 yr old kid. I don't do hoodies, sneakers and jeans, or backpacks. And yeah, I love my designer bags. But I'm nice to the stroller crowd and the rest of em so everything's dandy
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I think of it as the "I'm too busy parenting to attend to my appearance" look. Too-short mom jeans, stained sweatshirt, no makeup, wash-and-wear hair that could stand to be washed. Crocs are a recent addition to this look.
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Oh, god, Crocs. The most depressing footwear ever invented.
I'm fashion-bipolar: I tend to wear tight-fitting yoga pants and tee-shirts and running shoes on the weekends, because I'm racing around doing errands and hanging with my kids; during the week, I'm generally in fitted slacks, Italian leather jacket, low-cut blouses, 3-inch heels. However, unless I'm meeting someone for dinner, I change into those yoga pants the moment I cross my apartment's threshhold.
Because this is a neighborhood where people live (as opposed to work, like Midtown), we see our neighbors in their schlubby clothes because those are the ones you wear around the house or to do unglamorous things like grocery shopping or working out.
If the origina post is meant as a criticism of the Park Slope Mom's uniform of baggy khakis and whatnot, better check the rest of the board - I'm sure it's been hashed over in indignant detail already. Ad nauseum. -
hey i like the no make up look. for girls it looks great!!! all the girls i ever look wear minimum amounts of it.
I love jeans on chicks too! -
I've read several bits of snark here on men wearing tight or skinny fit denim.
I'm always wearing them, mainly 'cause I can fit in them, unlike the majority of doughy PS dudes.
Metabolism, not cocaine.
Now, i'm off to the diner for a bacon cheeseburger, pardon me.
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armchair, sweetheart, i think you'd like women if they were wearing garbage bags for clothes
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brooklynpotter wrote: armchair, sweetheart, i think you'd like women if they were wearing garbage bags for clothes
that depends on who is wearing them. some ulgy ho's can be well ugly. if a knock out wears one, that be fine
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but generally i'll stick to my taste with minimum makeup and jeans! -
Gotta say that I'm with AW on the beautiful, low maintenance look. I think that a lot more women could get away with it, but convincing them can be another story...
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ilovecarbs wrote: Gosh, that sounds awful. Hmm, I must be a black sheep.. I wear make up, have straight non frizzy hair, like the fitted jeans. P.S. granny panties should be used as parachutes only. and no hoodies. I'm not a 5 yr old kid. I don't do hoodies, sneakers and jeans, or backpacks. And yeah, I love my designer bags. But I'm nice to the stroller crowd and the rest of em so everything's dandy
I'm a bum , who loves hoodie sweater zip ups , don't mess with my hoodies!
I feel ya on the backpacks , and granny panties.
Sneakers , jeans , and hoodies= comfortable
As long as you are comfortable , who cares what others think. -
PS is the only place I've ever felt comfortable steeping out of my house in workout clothing, and I'm not saying that's a good thing.
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Me: I've been cutting and coloring my own hair (and doing own nails etc) and wearing/collecting vintage (dresses, coats, bags etc) since the late 70's. For very casual I wear a fitted t-shirt and black pants. The last time I wore jeans was probably about 1979 ... at this point if I put some on I'd feel like I was wearing a Halloween costume ... except that I always feel comfortable in Halloween costumes, and would feel very uncomfortable in jeans. Anyway. Don't own any workout clothing, sneakers, or hoodies. Don't wear eye makeup most of the time any more but need a little lippy.
Speaking of Halloween costumes - walking down 7th Ave yesterday in the space of about five minutes I passed three girls who looked like they were going to a "Worst of the 80s" party - like, hot pink leggings with white patent pumps with bows on them, and Flashdance tops - and a hipster dude with hair so ridiculous he totally outdid Marcel on Top Chef. Then again I had my share of ridiculous hair in the 80s so I should talk, I guess. :roll: -
Subject: Re: "The Park Slope Uniform"
The Chipster wrote: I thought that was too good to leave on the end of a thread!
Damn, Chipster, Could you go out of your way to be any more antagonistic? It gives you a distinct air of sexual frustration.
Hmm...
Park Slope Uniform:
For men- shortish hair, jeans, baseball hats, glasses, sneakers, and a distinct air of sexual frustration. No Mojo.
For women: no makeup, frizzy hair, loose pants, new pedicure, waxed eyebrows, $300. cell phone permanently attached, overpriced hoodies, old granny panties, recognized by her self entitled p.c. aroma..
I guess it's more about what people DON'T wear. Or have...style. -
erikka.. I totally understood what you said about work out clothing.
I am considerably older than many who post here and have live in PS a lot longer than most.. consider me the landed gentry.. raised my kids here and now helping my Slopie kids who never moved from the hood to raise their kids in the PS tradition.
Even 5 years aho I took my work out clothes to the gym and changed in to them. The other day when I was walking on 9th street on my way to the gymn I realized I was wearing a uniform... including those high priced sneaks from New Balance and clothes that had spandex listed as an ingredient. In the moment I had the impulse to run home and change but I looked up and within half a block saw at least 6 women dressed like I was and they too were on their way to the gymn too,,,, I felt better.. espoecially when I realized that I wa s25 years older than any of them and looked better in my spandex than they did in theirs!!
Hooray Park Slope.
The liberation I helped bring to surface in the 60's with my pals like Gloria S.. who is a lot older than I am... for real... (here is what 50 looks like and 60 looks like and gosh 70 looks like) has come to its ultimate conchusion and here it is..
I am a woman in her late 50's and I look just fine in spandex.. something I never would have considered wearing out in public even 10 years ago!! -
erskelyne wrote: I've read several bits of snark here on men wearing tight or skinny fit denim.
Sometimes I do tease about the tight pants, but there are levels of tightness. I would tease you only if you fell into the "hmmm...those look like skinny pants from the women's department" level. As long as I can't see the spandex fibers splayed across your thigh, I will not look away in horror.
I'm always wearing them, mainly 'cause I can fit in them, unlike the majority of doughy PS dudes.
Metabolism, not cocaine.
Now, i'm off to the diner for a bacon cheeseburger, pardon me.
In the end though, I far prefer a slim cut jean on a man, and a slim cut man in a jean. -
in the end, if he looks skinnier than i do in my jeans then i'm not interested
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Subject: Re: "The Park Slope Uniform"
steve wrote: [quote=The Chipster]I thought that was too good to leave on the end of a thread!
Damn, Chipster, Could you go out of your way to be any more antagonistic? It gives you a distinct air of sexual frustration.
Hmm...
Park Slope Uniform:
For men- shortish hair, jeans, baseball hats, glasses, sneakers, and a distinct air of sexual frustration. No Mojo.
For women: no makeup, frizzy hair, loose pants, new pedicure, waxed eyebrows, $300. cell phone permanently attached, overpriced hoodies, old granny panties, recognized by her self entitled p.c. aroma..
I guess it's more about what people DON'T wear. Or have...style.
While Chipster's post can certainly be viewed as antagonistic, I hardly think this is a "moderate" way of addressing it, Steve. -
in the end, if he looks skinnier than i do in my jeans then i'm not interested
That's a shame, 'cause I'm a slender fellow who likes to have his eyes on a woman who can fill a dress with curves.
It's not some creepy fetish thing, but a Southern thing, I suppose. -
veets--it only counts if you're using that clothing TO ACTUALLY EXCERCISE IN, know what I mean? I'm only wearing yoga pants on the way to yoga class, not to a bar or to run errands. I lose track of how many men and women I see just hanging out in running shorts and their college t-shirts. If I'm wearing that in public I'm making damn sure that I'm running so you don't think that's the way I actually dress.
Be careful of the elastic waistband slippery slope, people. Comfort is highly overrated. -
The guy's uniform describes me to a tee, but then again, I've worn that uniform since I graduated from college. I still wore it when I lived in New Jersey, DC, Manhattan and now Brooklyn. Maybe I am at the fashon fore front??
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erikka wrote: veets--it only counts if you're using that clothing TO ACTUALLY EXCERCISE IN, know what I mean
Side benefit of hashing, you get way comfortable hanging out in bars or anywhere in running clothes. It's kind of funny cuz sometimes other people have no idea what to make of us.? I'm only wearing yoga pants on the way to yoga class, not to a bar or to run errands. I lose track of how many men and women I see just hanging out in running shorts and their college t-shirts. If I'm wearing that in public I'm making damn sure that I'm running so you don't think that's the way I actually dress.
Be careful of the elastic waistband slippery slope, people. Comfort is highly overrated. -
erskelyne wrote:
sorry, i don't know many women who want their man's thighs to be bigger than theirs.in the end, if he looks skinnier than i do in my jeans then i'm not interested
That's a shame, 'cause I'm a slender fellow who likes to have his eyes on a woman who can fill a dress with curves.
It's not some creepy fetish thing, but a Southern thing, I suppose. -
erikka wrote:
Yes, it is, and I am definitely guilty of wearing yoga pants all day. It's the work-at-home thing. If I'm just sitting at home all day and not likely to see anyone other than the UPS guy, why shouldn't I wear my yoga pants all day? Hey, why shouldn't I wear my pajamas all day? And then if I'm just going out to walk the dogs or pick up some milk at the corner store, do I really need to change? I mean, I'm probably not going to see anyone I know . . . . Yes, this is a slippery slope.
Be careful of the elastic waistband slippery slope, people. Comfort is highly overrated. -
if you're wearing the right PJ pants, nobody will notice. trust me.
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I don't get why people think to be "comfortable" you have to wear yoga pants or something. I work at home, I'm wearing a cotton dress and a sweater, and I couldn't be more comfortable.
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brooklynpotter wrote: [quote=erskelyne]
sorry, i don't know many women who want their man's thighs to be bigger than theirs.in the end, if he looks skinnier than i do in my jeans then i'm not interested
That's a shame, 'cause I'm a slender fellow who likes to have his eyes on a woman who can fill a dress with curves.
It's not some creepy fetish thing, but a Southern thing, I suppose.
huh? Now I'm confused. You don't want a man to have either smaller OR bigger thighs than you? Well, that limits things.
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oops... i don't want them to be smaller than mine
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I like skinny legs on a guy.
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well, i don't like gargantuan legs. normal sized, larger than mine, a bonus if they have freckles
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